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			<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><FONT FACE="Thorndale, serif"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>JSU
			 CS399 Discourse Analysis </B></I></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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			<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><FONT FACE="Thorndale, serif"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Spring
			2012</B></I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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			<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">The problem solved by
			this system is to subject a literary work (in this case, books
			from the Bible) to basic discourse analysis. Since discourse
			analysis provides the spine of the system's core structure and
			logic, a summary description of the concepts involved in discourse
			analysis will be presented here. In general, discourse analysis is
			the process by which a literary body or sequence of messages are
			split into clauses. Clauses are the most basic, atomic unit of
			meaning in the communication of ideas. Discourse analysis seeks to
			show the relationship between clauses and the meanings conveyed in
			them. The words or sequences of words that join the clauses are
			referred to as conjunctions. Although, in some cases, implied
			conjunctions may be inserted between clauses where there was
			originally no words.</FONT></P>
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			<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">The
			form of discourse analysis used in this system focuses on
			generating an outline reflecting the contents of the source
			document. This approach is based on the idea that any meaningful
			discourse can be synonymously represented in outline form,
			possibly the outline that the original author used in the writing
			of the discourse being examined. This system also takes advantage
			of the notion that any well-formed outline has a one-to-one
			mapping to a tree diagram that conveys the same information. Using
			these concepts, we developed a system that satisfies the client's
			specifications.</FONT></P>
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			<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">This
			system takes advantage of discourse analysis to parse and split
			sentences (again, verses from books of the Bible) into clauses and
			generate a tree diagram of all the contained clauses. This tree
			diagram may then be utilized by users of the system to summarize
			and condense several related clauses into a user-derived clause
			that still conveys most of the meaning of the original constituent
			clauses. In this manner, entire sections of the source document
			may be condensed into summary statements that preserve most of the
			original meaning. The most practical application of this system is
			as a reference tool, helping a user to organize and better
			understand meanings conveyed in the Bible.&nbsp; </FONT>
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